Wang Zhen, who flourished between 1290 and 1333, was a Chinese agronomist, inventor, mechanical engineer, politician and writer of the Yuan dynasty. He is best known for his 1313 illustrated treatise Nong Shu, or Book of Agriculture, which ran to more than 110,000 characters and documented a comprehensive range of medieval Chinese farming practices and machinery, and for his pioneering work on wooden movable-type printing and water-powered mechanical bellows.
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Defining ContributionEarly innovator of wooden movable type printing and author of the Nong Shu agricultural treatise 2 Connections
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Wang Zhen (simplified Chinese: 王祯; traditional Chinese: 王禎; pinyin: Wáng Zhēn; Wade–Giles: Wang Chen, fl. 1290–1333) was a Chinese agronomist, inventor, mechanical engineer, politician, and writer of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368).
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Wang Zhen (simplified Chinese: 王祯; traditional Chinese: 王禎; pinyin: Wáng Zhēn; Wade-Giles: Wang Chen, fl. 1290-1333) was a Chinese agronomist, inventor, mechanical engineer, politician, and writer of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368).
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He was one of the early innovators of the wooden movable type printing technology.
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Wang Zhen (simplified Chinese: 王祯; traditional Chinese: 王禎; pinyin: Wáng Zhēn; Wade-Giles: Wang Chen, fl. 1290-1333) was a Chinese agronomist, inventor, mechanical engineer, politician, and writer of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368).
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Wang Zhen (simplified Chinese: 王祯; traditional Chinese: 王禎; pinyin: Wáng Zhēn; Wade-Giles: Wang Chen, fl. 1290-1333) was a Chinese agronomist, inventor, mechanical engineer, politician, and writer of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368).
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